We hear how some have near death experiences, death and came back, or prophets visions.
Many speak of Heaven and speak of out of body experiences. And even some speak if hell. Some come back claiming to have a message from God while others either didn't want to return to earth once seeing heaven and others are thankful to be back to not have to go to hell.
We have books, documentaries, movies, and eye witnesses.
I do not disbelieve that God can do all this. But how can any of this be trusted? Are we to take it face value and take the biblical truths from it and just kinda keep it in the mind vault of possibly true but not sure? Some of these people only felt a very bright warm and loving light drawing them and they wanted to reach this light with great excitement but then pulled back to earth brought back to life they woke up sad to be alive. While others actually sees heaven or hell and returns to earth telling of what they saw with biblical truths but also things that cant be proven like the things that go on in heaven or hell.
These people claim to be true and some even claim yo bring a message. How in the world can we know if any of its true.
I lean more towards just believing the bible period. But prophets who sees visions is biblical so I dont know.
Just something to ponder here, but why would God send people to a place they are never ever going to go to?
Heaven is not the final destination right? The Bible states very clearly that our final destination is the New Jerusalem on the new earth. When people say they died and went to heaven and describe it are they describing heaven or the new Jerusalem?
Revelation 21
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer
any sea. [SUP]2 [/SUP]And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. [SUP]3 [/SUP]And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, [SUP]4 [/SUP]and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be
any death; there will no longer be
any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.” [SUP]5 [/SUP]And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” And He *said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.” [SUP]6 [/SUP]Then He said to me, “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost. [SUP]7 [/SUP]He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son. [SUP]8 [/SUP]But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part
will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
[SUP]9 [/SUP]Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
[h=3]The New Jerusalem[/h][SUP]10 [/SUP]And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, [SUP]11 [/SUP]having the glory of God. Her brilliance was like a very costly stone, as a stone of crystal-clear jasper. [SUP]12 [/SUP]It had a great and high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names
were written on them, which are
the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. [SUP]13 [/SUP]
There were three gates on the east and three gates on the north and three gates on the south and three gates on the west. [SUP]14 [/SUP]And the wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them
were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
[SUP]15 [/SUP]The one who spoke with me had a gold measuring rod to measure the city, and its gates and its wall. [SUP]16 [/SUP]The city is laid out as a square, and its length is as great as the width; and he measured the city with the rod, fifteen hundred miles; its length and width and height are equal. [SUP]17 [/SUP]And he measured its wall, seventy-two yards,
according to human measurements, which are
also angelic
measurements. [SUP]18 [/SUP]The material of the wall was jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. [SUP]19 [/SUP]The foundation stones of the city wall were adorned with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation stone was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; [SUP]20 [/SUP]the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. [SUP]21 [/SUP]And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the gates was a single pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.
[SUP]22 [/SUP]I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. [SUP]23 [/SUP]And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp
is the Lamb. [SUP]24 [/SUP]The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. [SUP]25 [/SUP]In the daytime (for there will be no night there) its gates will never be closed; [SUP]26 [/SUP]and they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it; [SUP]27 [/SUP]and nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
